On the irreducibility of the moduli space of curves. Appendix to the paper of Harris and Mumford

DOI10.1007/BF01393372zbMath0506.14017OpenAlexW1235616391MaRDI QIDQ1836701

William Fulton

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142899

zbMATH Keywords

stable curveramified coveringirreducibility of moduli space of curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

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Cites Work

• On the Kodaira dimension of the moduli space of curves
• The irreducibility of the space of curves of a given genus
• Hurwitz schemes and irreducibility of moduli of algebraic curves